Examples: how to pronounce T: American English Pronunciation

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[DemimondeMesilaThraam]

I watched this video as a native born English speaker. I found it very interesting...how did I manage to grow up instinctively picking all this up before I was even five years old? I have never studied a foreign language and now I can see there's more to learning one than remembering the vocabulary words! I want to thank all the people who are learning to speak English as a new language and are going through the trouble of pronouncing it in a way that can be understood properly. I have gotten frustrated before when people spoke it badly and from now on I will have more patience.

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[rodolfooviedo]

In the sentence "I slept well last night", you pronounced "last" with a stopped t. Maybe, there is a stronger rule: a t follow by an n is pronounced as a stopped t. Thanks Rachel for your awesome videos!

[rachelsenglish]

If you are comfortable with how to make each sound, just make them individually with breaks in-between. Think about what you have to change about the mouth position to go from one sound to the next. Then break it down and practice single transitions, like T to R or R to OO. Do these over and over to train your muscles. Then slowly put the whole word together, and eventually speed it up.
Best,
Rachel

[rachelsenglish]

@willbali64 You're welcome! The transcript for each video is the first link in the description of the video, which will appear underneath the video as you watch. Look for TRANSCRIPT:

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[bearat]

Thanks for the videos, Rachel. For those whose native languages have a trilled "R" sound, I've noticed when learning the American "R" in words like "water" and "later" that it is exactly like the trilled "R" sound (but don't trill it more than once). I hope this helps.

[norbertomoritz]

This and the first video are a blessing to intermediate learners. Thank you very much.

[rachelsenglish]

@Clepsidra16 Hi - good question. Yes, as a stand alone word, 'was' would be [wʌz] or [wəz]. Because it is linking to a word that begins with an S however, the unvoiced version of the z sound, the Z just gets turned into and S sound in everyday speech, which is quite fast. You won't hear the s as a separate sound, you will just hear it as the S in sent.

[milindbharankar]

This vdo is a complete T pronouncation specialisation in my opinion. This is really one of greatest vdos. Thank you very much.

[alextellez]

I love your videos so much! They're so helpful and practical! 😍😍😍

[rachelsenglish]

It follows the rule for an ending T: it will usually be pronounced as a stop T --- unless the next word begins with a vowel/diphthong ("eight in the morning"), in which case it will be a flap T/

[trieuqtran]

You are the best Rachel! Wish you were my ESL teacher in high school.

[haddadghia]

wowww! I am Lebanese and I have the goal to improve my pronunciation, you're helping me a lot, than you!

[godislove]

Thank you so much Rachel😍😊you're the best teacher ..coming from ZAMERICAN ENGLISH channel

[rachelsenglish]

@paulohlcoelho There is a secondary stress on the TUDE syllable, so it would be attiTude. :) Good question.

[cassiavalladaresbastospeix]

One of your best videos ever. Very clarifying. Thank you a lot.

[rachelsenglish]

@cecygerardway I've not heard it pronounced as a D in these situations, but it is pretty common to leave the T out in words like twenty, center, interview. I have a video on the numbers 11-20 that goes over that pronunciation.

[suestraw]

This is really well done. Clear and easy to understand American English.

[lindaleung]

... I later found another great video from you that addressed the TS sound. Thanks for all the free lessons!!

For everyone who has the same question - the video is called HOW TO MAKE THE TS SOUND.